[Plugin Library] LibFredo6 - v4.9c - 20 May 13

[fredo6]

LibFredo6 is a shared library used by some of my plugins. It is NOT a standalone plugin. Plugins currently using LibFredo6 are:

• FredoScale
• Tools on Surface
• RoundCorner
• Curviloft
• HoverSelect
• GhostComp
• SUClock
• FredoTools
• Curvizard
• TopoShaper

You need to install it and respect the versions required by the Plugins, the higher, the better. The current version level of LibFredo6 is 4.9 (so 49 in integer form). I maintain backward compatibility so that plugins requiring an older version of LibFredo6 should work with a new version.

IMPORTANT: if you just install LibFredo6 without any of the plugins above, you will see no new toolbar in Sketchup but an entry "LibFredo6 Settings.." in the Windows menu.

I also suggest that you install 000_AdditionalPluginFolders to have more control on errors when Sketchup loads plugins.

LibFredo6 User Manual - English - v4.0.pdf

LibFredo6 Manual Utilisateur - French - v4.0.pdf

(Thanks to Jean Franco for Translation)

LibFredo6 User Manual - Chinese-zh-cn v4.0.pdf

(Thanks to guanjin)

Note: If you drop the PDF doc files into the DOCUMENTATION_Dir subfolder, you can access them from within Sketchup.

• Sketchup versions: 6 and above (free and Pro)
• Platform: Windows and Mac OSX
• Language: English, French, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Chinese, + partial Italian, Japanese, Korean, German (thanks to all kind translators). Thanks to Christophe Plassais for the French user manual. Thanks to guanjin for the Chinese user manual.
• Menus: by default, it is installed in Window > LibFredo6 Settings…
• Icon toolbar: NO Toolbar

On Windows (with Winzip)
1) Download and Open the archive
2) Select All (Ctrl A)
3) Extract into the Sketchup Plugin Directory
4) Answer YES to OVERWRITE all existing files if any

The footprint on Windows in the SU Plugin Directory must be:

LibFredo6 49 - Windows.png

On Mac OSX
1) Click on the Zip archive on Sketchucation
2) This should open the Download box with highlight on the folder LIBFREDO6_Dir_46 and LibFredo6.rb
3) Copy this folder and file to the Sketchup Plugins directory
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/plugins

The footprint on Mac OSX in the SU Plugin Directory must be:

LibFredo6 49 - OSX.png

CAUTION: NEVER rename or move files from their folders. If you are unsure of your unzip operation, do it in a neutral folder and check that you reconstruct the right footprint. Then transfer the folders and files to the SU Plugin Directory.

LibFredo6 can be installed in any directory, not just the Sketchup standard directory. Doing so will allow you to automatically share the same plugin version if you have several versions of Sketchup installed, and to avoid the security right restrictions for copying files to the system folders on Windows (like C:\program files). Just always make sure that my plugin folders (like FREDOSCALE_Dir_22) are located in the same place as LibFredo6.rb.
See 000_AdditionalPluginFolders for more information.

LibFredo6 4.9c - 20 May 13.zip

LibFredo6 4.9c - 20 May 13.rbz

No video for the time being

LibFredo6 is now in charge of loading my plugins.
LibFredo6 takes care, among others, of enriching the plugins with a few capabilities:

• Default parameters
• Language translation via external files (please, read the doc if you wish to contribute)
• Extra information and external links available in the “About…” box and menus
• Check Plugins for Update, with live connection to the Web
• Trace logging
• Purge of older versions of plugin files

LibFredo6 installs a submenu “LibFredo6 Settings…” in the Sketchup Windows menu. It contains a command to specify the language preferences, as well as several utilities for plugin maintenance. You can also set a few default parameters (inference colors) and access the documentation (as a PDF).

Menu LibFredo6.jpg

LibFredo6 4.9c – 20 May 13: Technical release still related to issues on Mac platforms.

LibFredo6 4.9b – 19 May 13: Technical release related to issues on Mac platforms.
Here is the Release start post.


LibFredo6 4.9a – 18 May 13: Release for Curvizard 1.2 with various fixes.

LibFredo6 4.8a – 25 Apr 13: Release for TopoShaper.
Here is the Release start post.

LibFredo6 4.7c – 09 Apr 13: Minor update related to a bug in Sketchup versioning.

LibFredo6 4.7a – 03 Oct 12: Release for Curvizard 1.1

LibFredo6 4.6e – 03 Oct 12: Minor release to fix a problem in Check for Updates, due to change of URL scheme of the new Sketchucation web site. Version 4.6d had a problem.

LibFredo6 4.6d – 03 Oct 12: Minor release to fix a problem in Check for Updates, due to change of URL scheme of the new Sketchucation web site.

LibFredo6 4.6c – 11 Jul 12: Major release for Curvizard

LibFredo6 4.5a – 08 May 12:

• Update for ThruPaint 1.2 to support some evolutions.
• Additional features for the Free Rotate tool of FredoScale

LibFredo6 4.4m – 14 Apr 12: Small update for ThruPaint adjustments. Integration of the Chinese (thanks to guanjin) and two Spanish translations (thanks to Defisto and Oxer)

LibFredo6 4.4j – 11 Apr 12: Release for ThruPaint

LibFredo6 4.3c – 31 Jan 12: fixed a small issue with environment variables not properly set on some Mac configuration.

LibFredo6 4.3b – 22 Dec 11: fixed a bug in the display of numeric buttons in Palettes (invisible in Curviloft) and added the updated Spanish translation (many thanks to Defisto).

LibFredo6 4.3a – 19 Dec 11: This release is necessary for FredoTools 1.0.

LibFredo6 4.2a – 16 Sep 11: This release finally addresses the issues of security with Webdialogs on Safari 5.0.6 and higher, as well as a few other bug fixing.

LibFredo6 4.1a – 11 Sep 11: This release was supposed to solve the issues with Webdialogs on Safari 5.0.6 and higher, but did not really.

LibFredo6 4.0a – 23 Aug 11: major technical release. LibFredo6 is responsible for the loading of my plugins (no more use of ZLoader__xx.rb files). This should minimize errors at installation.
Version 4.0 also includes some utilities for plugin maintenance (Purge obsolete files, performance at load time, trace logging)
See Release Notes for details.

LibFredo6 3.7c – 07 Jun 11: minor maintenance release (issues in Check for Update). It also includes an update to Italian translation by COSEDIMARCO and Spanish translation by Defisto

LibFredo6 3.7b – 22 Apr 11: This includes a small fix to avoid double loading of LibFredo6 in all situations

LibFredo6 3.7a – 17 Apr 11: This release includes the Check Plugins for Update feature, as well as some fixes in the Web dialogs. It is also required for SUClock 1.1

LibFredo6 3.6b – 13 Jan 11: This release is mainly to support Curviloft 1.1 and fix a few issues with SU8. It also includes the support of a two-phase loading mechanism for some of my scripts.
Note: if you downloaded 3.6a, please upgrade to 3.6b or higher because there was a small bug in the Skinning for Curviloft.

LibFredo6 3.4c – 06 May 10: Stable version

[Ecuadorian]

Thank you!
Installed and running fine.

[pichuneke]

I have downloaded the plugins. I will try to look at the translation files tomorrow.

[Escargot-Archi]

Bonjour,

Comment activer l'affichage ?

[fredo6]

Escargot,

Pas d'affichage. C'est juste une librairie de code Ruby commune a certains de mes scripts, le premier de cette famille etant FreeScale.

Fredo

[sepo]

I am getting constant error when trying to extract libFredo6 3.1A
finally got it after 5 downloads....works fine.

[thomthom]

Have you tried downloading the file again?

[olishea]

fantastic work....so easy to use and effective

[fredo6]

NEW VERSION 3.1b available.
It is necessary for running the upgrade to FreeScale 2.0b.

see main message of this thread
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=145336#p144178

Fredo

[LuckyNinja99]

I followed the installation instructions on your pdf to the letter, and I'm rewarded with an amazing nothing. You installation instructions are unclear and inadequate

[remus]

You wont get anything visible after you install libfred06. Have you installed freescale?

[LuckyNinja99]

I take back my above post. I've got it to work now, I'm just a bit tired. On that note, well done sir

[remus]

Glad to hear its working

[fredo6]

NEW VERSION 3.1c
Needed for for FreeScale 2.0c
see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=144178#p144178

[fredo6]

NEW VERSION 3.1c 11 Apr 09 NOW RELEASED
Needed for for FreeScale 2.0c
see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=144178#p144178

Note: For those who have downloaded the release (c) of 9 Avril, which was available for a few minutes, please download again the version of 11 Apr.

[McGyver]

Thank you for sharing such awesome tools! You are truly a ruby script-master!

[Couque D`asse]

Hello.

This is Korean language files of LibFredo6 & FreeScale.

I really love this awsome plugin.

Thanks, Fredo6!

[fredo6]

Hello.

This is Korean language files of LibFredo6 & FreeScale.

I really love this awsome plugin.

Thanks, Fredo6!

The 2 files seems to work, though I can't really help to check with my laptop. At least it shows up in the translation dialog box.
Does 크기 변형 means "Scaling"

If other users want to try, just extract the file and
- drop LibFredo6_KO.lang into the LIBFREDO6_Dir_31 folder
- drop FreeScale_KO.lang into FREESCALE_Dir_20 folder

Thanks very much

Fred

[ideas_arte]

a very useful tool, thank you very much.!

[fredo6]

NEW VERSION 3.1d
Needed for for FreeScale 2.0d (the previous version 2.0c had a major bug).
see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=144178#p144178

[fredo6]

NEW VERSION 3.1e
Needed for for FreeScale 2.0e
see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=144178#p144178

[COSEDIMARCO]

@Fredo6
New Italian translation is ready.

[Ton Baeten]

Fredo,

First of all many thanks for all your wonderfull plugins. You have brought SU to a new, unprecedented, level.
Of course I follow the topics on your plugins and try to be as updated as possible, because your plugins already make part of my daily/standard SU tools.
You have just released a new version of Freescale (v2.0e) and following your advise I also downloaded the new
LibFredo6 (v3.1e). For the first time, this release contains a new folder called DEFPARAM_Dir, containing 1 (text)item. But...this file is already in my plugins folder as part of the Cadspan plugin (to prepare SU models for 3D printing).
As usual it is impossible to have 2 files with identical names in one folder........
So here's my question: can I replace the cadspan-DEFPARAM_Dir with yours, without getting into troubles with Cadspan or not? Can both plugins use that same folder without problems??
I have put 'on hold' the update of your plugins upon further info from you, so please fill me in.

[fredo6]

Ton,

The small text file have no specific use for the script. It is there in the archive to force the creation of DEFPARAM_Dir via Unzip if not already existing.

I incorporated the DEFPARAM_Dir folder (empty with just one small file) in order to be sure this folder is created at installation.

LibFredo6 would normally create it on the fly whenever you deal with Default Parameters, but it seems that in some environments (Mac in particular) and depending on security rules, the creation of the folder from a Ruby script may not be authorized.

When you unzip, and already have a folder DEFPARAM_Dir, it is neutral. Whether you answer Yes or No to the 'Replacement' question from Unzip (or Copy), your existing folder will continue existing, as well as its content.

Fredo

PS: In general, I recommend that you always do a Yes All replacement when unzipping, so that you don't have to worry about what has changed. Also, keep in mind that file names in a ZIP archive go along the folder hierarchy (so it is not unusual to have several files with the same name in a Zip file, but associated with different folders)

Also, I introduce this change in release 3.1c or 3.1d, not 3.1e

[fredo6]

Fredo,

For the first time, this release contains a new folder called DEFPARAM_Dir, containing 1 (text)item. But...this file is already in my plugins folder as part of the Cadspan plugin (to prepare SU models for 3D printing).

Ton,

My previous post was general about the installation.

In your specific case of Cadspan, are you sure the DEFPARAM_Dir folder belongs to this script. Could you tell me what it contains?

Fredo

[fredo6]

NEW VERSION 3.1f
Includes fixes for Mac compatibility (web dialog boxes) and Italian translation by COSEDIMARCO.
Goes along with FreeScale 2.0f
see http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=17947&p=144178#p144178

[pecan]

When I close SketchUp, my debugger console get the following messages.


C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Core_31.rb:270: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/PutOnLayer.rb:78: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
(eval):1: warning: already initialized constant SU_MAJOR_VERSION
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Mark_31.rb:325: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Mark_31.rb:331: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Mark_31.rb:335: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Mark_31.rb:339: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Protractor.rb:154: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Startup_31.rb:58: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Tool_31.rb:325: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Tool_31.rb:437: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Tool_31.rb:653: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
C:/Program Files/Google/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins/LibFredo6_Dir_31/Lib6Traductor_31.rb:47: warning: don't put space before argument parentheses
(eval):3081: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
(eval):3104: warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version
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key = StampOffset
value = 12.0
key = GridSpacingX
value = 120.0
key = SmooveRadius
value = 360.0
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value = 120.0
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[fredo6]

Thanks for signaling this.
These are just harmless warnings about the ruby syntax.
I fiexed them anyway, and it will go in a further version.

Fredo

[Daniel S]

Fredo..

I don´t know if this is the correct place for this request.
Can be added something like this menu to LibFredo6?:

menu.gif

(It is from: http://www.3skeng.com)

This menu can be part of your plugins...

I don´t know if your HoverSelect will be extended to select faces, groups, dimensions... but the idea is to have only one button on the toolbar and with a key you can see and select all the other options with the onscreen menu:

Selector menu.jpg

Example for JPP tool:

JPP menu.jpg

Daniel S

[fredo6]

Daniel,

This is an interesting metaphor.
There are however a few issues with the JPP suggestion, because it is not possble to drwa images (i.e. jpg) in a tool.

For HoverSelect, I am not clear on what it would give on other entity types than edges. But this would be easy to derive (Edges are the most complex actually).

Fredo